Definition of Dictatorship
Dictatorship
The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
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Dictatorship Quotations
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
George W. Bush
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo
Dictatorship Translations
dictatorship in Dutch is dictatuur
dictatorship in French is dictature
dictatorship in German is Diktatur
dictatorship in Spanish is dictadura
dictatorship in Swedish is diktatur
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